Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I still don't understand how the DoD would be telling the Dept of Commerce NOT to approve exports to Iraq in the '80s if this was some conspiracy to allow Saddam to build WMD's
I feel foolish even writing this.
Do you really view the government as a seemless and coordinated institution with some singular purpose, Druff?
You don't think the DoD and the DoC might be working at cross purposes?
There were several selfish and nefarious motives.
The WMD's were just a digestible "sales point" as Sonatine suggests.
Speaking of WMD's. In hindsight, knowing that 500,000 people would be killed over there would you have advocated a limited nuclear option?
Somehow this course of action has been more palatable?
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